Big and luxurious mansion, countless maids and butlers, beautiful dresses and accessories, the last but not the least... delicious dishes served by top chefs. Since she was little, she got surrounded by those rich people things. From she opened her eyes in the morning till she laid to rest in the night. She get the top service from the professionals in everything she wanted and in every place she gone. Sounds perfect. But for her, it felt wrong. So wrong, since in the first place. In the big and luxurious mansion of the famous family - Nakiri family, she felt lonely. Most of the people in that big mansion always busy with their business. Even for her twin sister - Nakiri Erina. In their young age, she has busied herself with dish-taste things since she got gifted with the 'God's Tongue', it was what they called.

- Nakiri sisters 6 years old –

That day, the mansion was quiet like usual. Her light steps rang around the long corridor which bridged the main hall to her favorite place, eastern small indoor garden. In her right hand, she hold a small plastic pocket filled with her favorite caramel cube candy. While her left hand played with her long jet-black hair. In that sunny day, she dressed in floral sleeveless white colored knee-length dress. Two white ribbon tied on the right side of her head. It was when she was about to reach her destination, a fragrance of freshly baked cake came into her nostril. She could smell the freshly crop of berries and peach between the sweet fragrance of her favorite caramel. Being the curious one, she looked for its source. Then she stood still when she found out her always busy grandfather, together with her sister in that indoor garden. On the table which separated the two, got served the freshly baked cake which she smelled its fragrance seconds ago. She also noted the tall man dressed in the usual white colored chef uniform stood there.

"Ehm~ it's delicious." She heard her sister's comment which sounded so heartwarming. It was the first time she heard her sister said something like that. It was also the first time she saw the delight, happy face of her sister when the latter ate something.

"That chef must be incredible." She mumbled as her rose gold eyes gazed upon the brown haired chef. Then a small smile emerged on her thin lips as an idea popped in her mind. She retreated from her place then headed toward the other favorite places of hers in that big mansion. One thing which came into her mind - she wanted to make her sister said 'delicious' to her cooking.

- At indoor garden –

Nakiri Senzaemon can't stopped smiling as he saw his little granddaughter's happy face as the little girl ate all the dishes served by one of his best students back in Toutsuki Academy. It has been long since he saw that delight look on his granddaughter's beautiful face.

"Yo, Senzaemon-dono." The chef who served both Nakiri Senzaemon and his granddaughter, called him. "I heard that Azami got twin daughter, where is the other one?" That chef - Saiba Joichirou - continued as he took the vacant chair to sit on it.

"I don't know where she is right now." Nakiri Senzaemon replied then sipped his tea calmly. That short, ambiguous answer made the young chef had a questioned look on his face. "At the early morning, she tends to spend her time in the forest not far from the house. She often brought back fish, chicken, duck, even rabbit. After that, she will engrossed in vegetables and fruits farming at the greenhouse till noon. After having lunch till near dinner time, she will locked herself in the kitchen to make her own dish." The old Nakiri explained about the other Nakiri little girl whom got mentioned by Joichirou before.

Joichirou himself, after hearing that fact just remained silent. He can't imagine how a little girl can doing something like that. "I can tell that she's adventurous, Senzaemon-dono."

"Exactly. Moreover if she has something she wanted to get, she became the most stubborn girl ever exist."

"Just like her father?" Joichirou responded with his infamous grin.

"Nothing less."

"While this one here is so much alike her mother." Joichirou added as he looked at the little girl whom barely finished her meal. It was when the young chef and the head family of Nakiri were about to have something else to talk about, a man in his late thirties came into that place. He bowed respectfully to Nakiri Senzaemon as well as to Saiba Joichirou.

"Ah, let me introduced him to you, Saiba. He is Fujiwara Saburo, the one whom to be responsible in all the ingredients we used in this house."

"Nice to meet you, Chef Saiba." The man, Fujiwara Saburo greeted the young chef which got greeted back with a bow. "I like to hear your opinion about the vegetables and fruits you have been used for this cooking, Chef Saiba."

Joichirou didn't answer immediately as he seems deep in his thought. Earlier, he has been informed by Senzaemon himself that all the ingredients he used were cultivated itself by Nakiri household. "If you asked for my opinion... overall is good. It was the best one I ever used for my cooking. But, I got curious about the berries as well as the peaches. The last time I cooked a berries based sauce months ago, it can't produce the same fragrance and flavor like this time. Also, the peach I got today is the sweetest I ever got."

Fujiwara smiled as he heard the long speech made by Joichirou. Deep down in his heart, he was happy that the young chef who got invited privately by the head family was satisfied enough with the ingredient. "Actually, the berries and peaches we prepared today were different from the usual ones we used to serve, Chef Saiba." Fujiwara took a short pause before he continued. "It came from the first crop of the new farming technique which got initiated by Karen-sama. It seems that the result is like her prediction."

"Karen?" Joichirou asked as it was the first time he heard that name.

"She's Erina's sister." Senzaemon answered shortly.

"Heh~ in that such young age, she initiated something complicated like farming formula." Joichirou commented. Actually he got surprised.

"Karen-sama is so in love with sweets so she put more focus in making the fruit crops in better quality each time our chefs have a problem with that."

"Sweets?" Joichirou asked, more to himself. His eyes got bigger when he realized something. "That you mentioned it. The caramel. It has strange flavor... urgh, how I can tell it..."

"It's original, Chef Saiba." Fujiwara answered even before Joichirou finished his question.

"What do you mean?"

"Karen-sama herself who created that caramel. Usually, she made it for herself but it seems that she has made too much for her own, so she gave the rest to us."

Joichirou got another surprise from the young girl who named Nakiri Karen. When he heard about 'God's Tongue' owned by the young girl in front of him, he actually has got an impression that the current youngest generation of Nakiri was blessed with such incredible talent. He never heard of Nakiri Erina's twin sister, or about her talent. But, now that small 'secret' exposed by inner member of Nakiri household, Joichirou himself got speechless. In such young age, that Karen girl has created such 'soft' caramel in such complicated flavor. Joichirou can't predict how good that little girl's creation once she got older.

"It seems that I have made something for her, for giving me such good fruits." Joichirou spoke as he got up from his chair then headed to his workstation, begun to make something sweet to the other little girl.

Fujiwara asked for leaving the place toward the old Nakiri as he had completed his job. While the little Erina, she stayed silent since she finished all the dishes got served by Joichirou. During the three grown-up men's conversation, she can't help but felt envy about her twin sister. Both of them was twin sister, but they were so different. Not only their face which only has small similarity. Their characteristics were so much differed, like oil and water. Even both can be filled in the same place, but it never blended. Unlike her sister whom spent almost all her time outside the mansion with her own free will, Erina spent almost her time in dish test after another dish test. She got dictated to be an elegant little girl of Nakiri family which forced her to put the family name above her own will. So unlike her sister whom looked so carefree. Most things Erina did was correcting the recipe of the failure dishes which got served to her. So different with her sister whom had created her own product. One day. Just for one day, Erina wished for being in her sister's place.

"What with that gloomy face, Erina-chan?" Joichirou's voice brought Erina's gaze toward him who stood by his workstation. "You want to eat more dishes?" The chef asked animatedly to the young girl. But no answer from the latter. "Then, wait for a while, okay? I will make something to lighten your mood."

It was about thirty minutes later, Joichirou served a small bowl filled with beautiful mix of golden color of peaches combined with soft white cream and pink raspberries completed with brownish cracker crumble on it.

"Thank you for the food." Erina muttered then took a spoonful of the eye-catching dessert.

Once it touched her palate, a fresh wind blew her face. She got sent to beautiful ethereal garden. Splash! She felt all her body got wet because of peach juice got spilled out to her. The soft cream like a silk which wrapped her in the raspberry pool.

"It's wonderful." Erina commented once she got her conscious back. Just with a small bite, all the negative feeling she had before got repelled. It got replaced with joy, happiness feeling. Her purple eyes soon looked at the one who had made it. Joichirou smiled to her, a smile of father alike. That time, she admired him immediately. She wanted to be like him, to make dishes which healed whoever ate it.

"Chef Saiba." Erina called the older one once they left the indoor garden. Joichirou stopped his step then turned around to face the little girl. "A...ano... I want to be a great chef. So... if you didn't mind, may you tasted my cooking... one day?" Erina stuttered as her face blushed in deep red. It was her first time confessed her wish toward someone else.

"Of course, Erina-chan. I can't wait for it." Joichirou replied with his cheerful voice as he gave the little girl his infamous grin.

Later that afternoon, the private cooking session between Joichirou with Senzaemon and his granddaughter ended with both the chef and little Nakiri Erina took a picture.

It has been a year after that private cooking session. Erina has got back into her routine, took countless dish taste test while at her free time got spent in the kitchen. She has started learning about cooking which strangely felt so adventurous to her. It was in the day which got marked as the Nakiri twin's birthday. In that sunny day, both Erina and Karen got a visit from their cousin, Nakiri Alice. The white haired girl with her cute smile presented her handmade birthday cake to the twin. Her red eyes gleamed in expectation when each of her twin cousin took a taste of her cake.

"How is it? It is delicious, right?" Alice's cheerful voice rang all around the indoor garden where the three at.

"It's terrible." Erina commented as she sent her cousin a bored look.

"Mou~ Erina~ you said what?!" Alice pouted her lips as she whining about her cousin's answer.

"It's not delicious." Erina repeated which got Alice puffed her cheeks.

"Uhm... it's not bad for me, Alice." Karen said as she played her fork to the cake on her small plate. Alice whom looked annoyed because of Erina's comment suddenly transformed into the ever cheerful Nakiri Alice. Her red eyes gleamed in hope that the older Nakiri twin will praise her cake. "But, you made the cake a bit drier to my taste. Also, you put too much sugar in it. The fruit syrup you added in it becomes loss its flavor, you know?"

"But you like sweets, right?" Alice asked back to the jet-black haired girl whom barely told her opinion about the cake. Karen didn't reply immediately. She took something from her favorite small pocket then shoved it in Alice's mouth.

The youngest Nakiri girl became silent as the soft sweet flavor flooded in her mouth. It's caramel. But she never tasted a caramel like that one her older cousin gave her. The more she got the sweet flavor of the caramel cube, Alice felt a strange happiness. She got sent into a space full of candies. Even the ornaments on her dress and her head shaped in cute candy. There were countless little bunny brought basket filled with many shape candy. There was a giant caramel fountain which attached with golden colored caramel pool underneath it.

"How?" Karen's simple question brought Alice to the real world.

"It's sweet but much lighter than my cake."

"Nah... I hope next time you bring something sweet to me, it's better than this one, Alice." Karen smiled to her younger cousin. The white haired little girl nodded her head excitedly.

Then, a woman dressed in suits came to that place. She was Arato Yui, the woman who assigned as Erina's assistant. The woman bowed respectfully to the young Nakiri Erina as well as to Nakiri Karen and Nakiri Alice.

"Erina-sama, it's the time for your next appointment."

Erina got up from her chair then headed out of the indoor garden, left the other two girls without words.

"Huh, she always busy even in her birthday?" Alice said with less excitement in her voice. She took a sip on her tea. Actually she hoped that she can spend all day long with the honey blonde haired girl, but it didn't happen like what she has wished. So, she left with the other Nakiri twin, the older one. She saw the older girl ate her cake in silent. It seems that the older girl took the other part of the cake.

"Why are you keep eating it? Erina said it was terrible, isn't it?" Alice can't help but asking. She has known that the Nakiri twin had different trait. Unlike Erina whom always made Alice annoyed by her comments, Nakiri Karen was someone whom always made Alice got curious.

"But, you have made it for us, right? So... I have to eat it. Moreover, when I've got used of its flavor, it tasted good." Karen answered innocently then she put the small bite of cake into her mouth. Alice who saw it became speechless. Then a small plate where her cake laid on it got pushed in front of her. "Here, you have it too. It's impossible for me to eat all of it by myself." Alice took the plate and started eating her cake with her cousin. The next ten minutes later spent by cake eating without a word got exchanged between the two.

"Ne, Alice." Karen called the younger one once they finished Alice's handmade cake.

"Nani?"

"Since it's my birthday, I have planned to spend all day long enjoying sweets. As I've tasted your present cake, mind if you take a taste of my own?"

Karen's cake? It was Alice's question which got asked to herself inside her mind. Without realized it, she has nodded eagerly at that suggestion. Deep down in her heart, Alice can't wait to have Karen's cake as the latter always made good sweets. The number one present she always wished in her own birthday was Karen's sweets.

"Good. Then, let's go to the kitchen."

"Eh~ we... we will make it now? I thought that you've made it yourself, Ren-chan?" Alice asked as she got up from her chair, followed the older girl headed out of the indoor garden.

"Uhm... I've made it earlier, but Erina has said that it's not good. So, I want to make it again." Karen turned around and faced her younger cousin as she put her hands behind her back. "This time, let's make it together. Then, we enjoy it together with all the uncle and aunt in the greenhouse too. How?"

The night at the same day, the dining room in the Nakiri mansion got merrier than usual. That night, they celebrated the 7th birthday of Nakiri twin sisters.

"Happy birthday my lovely girls." Nakiri Leonora - Alice's mother, congratulated the two girls as she hugged both of them.

"How long you want to hug them, Leonora?" Nakiri Soe - Alice's father, reminded his wife while he hold his daughter's hand tightly. All day long, he hasn't seen his daughter's cute face as he has been busy since early in the morning and the latter has spent her day in the Nakiri mansion with her cousins.

"Oh... anata~" Leonora broke the hug then sent her husband an annoyed look. "You know that I haven't met the twins for months. Also..." She got her attention back to the twins, especially Karen. "I really miss your beautiful rose gold eyes, Ren-chan."

"Hai, hai. You can looked at them until it's satisfied you, Leonora-san. But for now, let's get our dinner begin." Nakiri Azami announced as he tried to pull both his daughters from Leonora. "This little ones has also prepared something to you." He added.

"Oh... hontou?! Can't wait for it."

The maids brought out the appetizer for the dinner once the Nakiri family members set to the dining table. Being the oldest one, Nakiri Senzaemon sat at the right side. Beside him, Nakiri Soe seated himself followed suit by his wife and daughter. Across the four was Nakiri Azami's family. A simple but beautifully arranged appetizer got served in front of them.

"Oh~ it's beautiful. This sauce just reminded me of Ren-chan's eyes." Leonora commented once she saw the appetizer on her plate.

"It has sweet fragrance like a candy. It's really bring the light, happy mood even before we eat it." Nakiri Soe added.

While the little Nakiri Alice just simply looked at the dish with gleaming eyes. The sparkling salmon and the gleaming golden colored potato lied on the rose colored sauce really caught her attention. Not to forget the sliced grape, mangosteen, and chopped lemon as its added decorative element.

"Let's have a taste of this." Nakiri Azami spoke then sliced the salmon. He dipped it to the sauce then savored its flavor.

"How?" Little Nakiri Karen asked as all her family member became dead silent once they ate the salmon dish. It was her first time served an appetizer in front of her family. It was Nakiri Mana - her mother, whom the first one put down the fork.

"You soaked the salmon in olive oil, vanilla and thyme, then cooked it in low temperature. While for the sauce you used tabasco, egg yolk, beet juice, and lemon squash." Nakiri Mana's short detailed comment broke the silence in the dining room.

"Just like the appearance, the sauce itself was soft and matched with the salmon and potato." Nakiri Soe added.

"Ehm~ the fruit make me taste the mix of fresh, sweet, sour and tasty. What is this white fruit, Ren-chan?" Nakiri Leonora asked.

"It's mangosteen." Nakiri Azami answered. "I don't know that you have an idea about using this kind of fruit to your dish, Ren. Not to forget the corn syrup you used in the chopped lemon. You make us tasted various kind of things in this simple appetizer, Ren." He smiled to the older Nakiri twin.

"I'm glad that you enjoy it, Otou-san."

The next dish was prepared by the younger twin. She has made a chicken based main course. White cream stayed on top of the dish, underneath it was melted mozzarella cheese over two colors of spinach and the chicken at the bottom. It may less colorful than the appetizer earlier, but it looked tasty. So they decided to take a taste before it got cold. Once the small piece of the chicken meat mixed with the spinach, cheese, and cream met their tongue, none spoke a thing. They drowned into the smoothness of the flavor brought by the dish. Karen was no exception. She has imagined that the spinach will a bit crunchy, but she was wrong. It was smooth, well cooked. She also noted that there was another kind of cheese between the red and green spinach.

"Feta cheese." Nakiri Mana spoke as if she can read Karen's mind. "You used it to give various taste to the spinach. The mozzarella cheese you added on top of it is to smoothen all the ingredients. Didn't forget with the sour cream which give a surprise taste in your dish. You make it good, Erina." She added as she looked at her younger daughter whom have a plain look on her face. A small frown on Erina's lips after she heard the comment of her mother.

"But I think that isn't enough to satisfy your taste, Oka-sama."

"What did you say, Erina?" Nakiri Azami reminded his daughter. "For your first try, it's really impressive."

A small smile emerged on Karen's lips. It was true. The dish served by her sister was really impressive, rich of flavor in it. The way she gave the seasonings in each ingredient was well calculated. Karen should felt proud of it, right? Having a sister as good as Erina. But, she felt something strange in her heart. Unease feeling. Even she has countless times served her dishes in front of her mother, not a time that she earned the motherly smile from the latter. It was so different with Erina. Her sister even succeed in making their mother praised and smiled because of her first time dish.

"The next one!" Nakiri Leonora beamed in surprise with her cheerful voice. "We will have Ren-chan's dessert, right?" She asked as she winked to the older Nakiri twin.

"I must apologize, aunt Leonora. I just make an appetizer for the dinner. But, if you insist in taking a small piece, I still have something for you." Karen replied with her happy face, covered up her unease feeling in front of her aunt.

"Then, can I have one now?"

Karen got up from her chair. "Wait for a minute then." She immediately went from the dining room to the kitchen. While the other started enjoying the dessert, only Leonora who didn't laid her hands on it. Since the beginning, she only interested in tasting Karen's cooking. Especially her sweets.

"Sorry for making you wait, aunt Leonora." Karen served a plate with peach semifreddo on it. Berries sauce covered the top layer of the semi frozen dessert. With a smile, Leonora took a spoonful of the dessert. She looked happier once the cold dessert filled her mouth. She can't described how the sweetness of the dish as she tasted various sweetness in it. From the peach, the berries, then the caramel. Karen's caramel. Not to forget about the softness texture of the semi frozen cake itself.

"Mana-sama, can I take Ren-chan to our house? I really want to eat this kind of dish every day."

"What are you saying, Leonora? You have had your cute Alice, aren't you?" Nakiri Mana replied with the same sentence she always used as her sister-in-law has asked the same question for countless times.

"You two has built your own talent. I hope I can taste a marvelous dish of you two in the future." Nakiri Soe said as he looked at the two young girls. Since the beginning, that he knew about 'God's Tongue' ability which possessed by Nakiri Erina, he has predicted that the girl will be a great chef even in her young age, just like her mother who has the same ability. But then, the talent owned by Erina's sister has surprised him to no end. Not to mention about the girl's fondness of sweets, but it also for the first time of Nakiri family member to have a specialty in such a young age. Moreover in sweets dish. Not even the Nakiri ancestor has a sole specialty in that subject.

"Oh~ anata, you want to take Ren-chan too? You looked at her for the longest, it's a first time." Leonora brought back Soe from his own world.

"Karen is cute, I agree. But, the cutest girl here is our Alice. I'm enough of this topic."

At certain place...

A brown envelope laid on the table, opened. Countless photos scattered on it. Photos of little beautiful girl in different place, in different event, in different facial feature.

"Her rose gold eyes are just like her mother's." An old man muttered as he took one of the photos. It showed the little girl's happy face as she put a candy in her mouth. "Even she like sweets. She's definitely her daughter." He put back the photo on the table. He took another photo which showed the little girl enjoyed her time in cooking her dish. "I will let them polish her talent. When she turned into the brilliant jewel, the thing I need to do is take her back to her destined place. My kingdom."

=================== Dish. 01 – Little Twin Princess ===================